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- SafeData version 0.6
- SafeData Copyright 92-96 Bahman Moallem.
- SafeData.doc version 1.0 Copyright 1996 Bahman Moallem.
- All Rights Reserved Worldwide
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- $VER: SafeData.doc v1.0 Copyright 96 Bahman Moallem.
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- DISCLAIMER
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- The author of this program is not responsible for any loss of data,
- damages to software or hardware that may result directly or indirectly
- from the use of this program. Use this software at your own risk.
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- COPYING
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- SafeData is copyright © 92-96 Bahman Moallem. SafeData is
- freely distributable so long as all files accompanying the SafeData
- package remain intact and unchanged. Unlimited non-commercial use and
- distribution is encouraged.
-
- Commercial use of SafeData or inclusion of SafeData in
- commercial applications requires expressed written consent. Please
- contact the author directly for further information.
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- ATTENTION
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- This software is beta. It has not been tested under all conditions.
- Generally I do not release softwares when I am not sure that they
- work without causing problems for the user.
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- Use this software at your own risk.
-
- I am releasing SafeData as it is to get some feedbacks from you. Please
- read the "FUTURE" part of this document for additional information.
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- REQUIREMENTS
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- AmigaOS 2.04 or better.
- xpkmaster.library and xpkIDEA.library or other encrypting libraries.
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- INSTALLATION AND SETUP
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- Copy SafeData executable to the directory C: or any to other
- directory in the search path of your Amiga.
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- INTRODCTION, PROGRAM DESCRIPTION AND USAGE
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- Warning: This document is very techy and brief. If you are not familiar
- with terms like xpkmaster.library, IDEA, encyption, configuration
- scripts etc. you better look somewhere else.
-
- Do you value your privacy?
-
- Back in 1992 I needed to protect a few of my private data files
- from some curious eyes. Soon I found that I could keep the encrypted
- copies of these files in my harddrive and use the decrypted versions
- of them through a recoverable ram disk when I needed to access them.
-
- The apparent advantage of this method was that the decrypted versions
- of the files disappeared as soon as I turned off my computer.
- To automate the process of decrypting these files to the recoverable
- ram drive and encrypting them back to the harddrive, I wrote the
- first version of SafeData.
-
- SafeData is an AmigaDOS program that uses XPK share libraries to
- read an encrypted configuration script and execute it.
-
- Here comes the summary of the available options in this version:
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- Usage: SafeData ?/S,ConfigurationFile/M
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- ?, lists the possible arguments and program's version information.
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- ConfigurationFile, multiple numbers of configuration scripts.
- If this argument is omitted, SafeData will try to load its default
- configuration file, S:private-startup.
- SafeData is able to read encrypted configuration scripts, thus you
- can and are advised to encrypt even these files.
-
-
- A few switches and commands allow you to communicate with SafeData via
- its configuration scripts. You can use multiple number of switches
- and commands in a single configuration file.
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- Any line that begins with a colon (;) is considered a comment line and
- will be left alone. Blank lines will also be ignored.
- The configuration file must be in pure ASCII format.
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- Summary of available switches:
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- ProcessIndicator Yes/No (Default is Yes)
- ShowFileName Yes/No (Default is Yes)
- ReAskPassword Yes/No (Default is No)
- OverWrite Yes/No (Default is Yes)
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- Summary of available commands:
- Encrypter "4 characters word" (Default is IDEA)
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- Execute "CMD" (AmigaDOS executable file/script
- to execute)
- Echo "String" (String to display)
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- Encrypt FROM TO
- Encrypt encrypts the file specified with the FROM argument to the file
- specified by the TO argument.
- Code, Update and Pack are aliases for the Encrypt command.
-
- Decrypt FROM TO
- Decrypt decrypts the file specified with the FROM argument to the file
- specified by the TO argument.
- DeCode, Restore and Unpack are aliases for the Decrypt command.
-
-
- Included in the SafeData's archive is the file private-startup which
- is a simple configuration script for SafeData. private-startup will
- hopefully answers most of your questions about how you can write
- your own configuration files for the program.
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- HISTORY
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- 961201 - version 0.6
- First version released to the public 8^).
- This version was finished 4 years ago (920824) but I did not manage to
- write a readme file for it until now. ;)
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- FUTURE
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- I am releasing this program to the public with hope that some user
- will find it useful.
-
- I have been thinking of rewriting SafeData to include a GUI and be
- able to automagically decrypt files that it encrypts through AmigaOS
- file notification mechanism.
- Now these additions should make SafeData a real killer program.
-
- If more than 15 users ask me for the above improvements, the next
- version of SafeData won't be that far ;)
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- COPYRIGHT NOTICES
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- SafeData version 1.1 © 1993-1996 Bahman Moallem.
- SafeData.doc v1.1 © 1996 Bahman Moallem.
-
- All program names mentioned in this document are either Copyright or
- Trademark of their respective owner(s).
-
- CONTACT
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- If you find some bugs or have some constructive ideas on how to improve
- SafeData, please contact the author via Internet mail to:
-
- bamo@ctools.pp.se
-
- The latest version of SafeData is always available at the author's
- WWW site:
-
- http://www.ctools.pp.se/
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